mechsy

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by mechsy 5mo ago
Yes, it helps to keep the bigger picture (pun intended) in focus and something tangible to criticise. Same for design docs. Otherwise, the conversation‘s spotlight just keeps moving around and might even follow whatever thread one of the mo
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by mechsy 5mo ago
Yeah in a similar project getting line passthrough or similar to work (matching sampling frequencies etc.) to get a clean signal for the FFT proved much harder than setting up eg the ESP32 side of things. But it’s a lot of fun to play aroun
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by mechsy 6mo ago
I too see potential in this - it started feeling a bit weird in recent years switching between Go, Python and Rust codebases with Python code looking more and more like a traditional statically typed language and not getting the performance
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by mechsy 7mo ago
Absolutely! This is oftentimes my first easy task in the morning to kick things off. For many teams the temptation to let dependencies ‚rot‘ is real, however I have found a reliable way to keep things up-to-date is enabling dependabot and m
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by mechsy 9mo ago
Cancer sucks, I wish all the best towards a recovery. You’d also have to ‘fix’ DNA: unless we can re-engineer a bunch of key enzymes and then re-encode the entire genome (or maybe key parts) with forward error correction without breaking ev
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by mechsy 9mo ago
True, opportunity cost is a factor, sorry if my reply sounded a bit brash. IMHO they are one of the few orgs who got this model right compared to lots of others who went the open core or support/consulting contract required OSS route.
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by mechsy 9mo ago
If you need less scale/features go for glitchtip. If you’re not going for k8s, the self-hosted docker-compose version of sentry works fine including proper releases and support by the sentry team etc. Just experimental newly introduced
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by mechsy 2y ago
They could add registration and rate-limits
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by mechsy 2y ago
Looks like they mostly use Sentinel-2 data and apply some processing on top. So it's basically (publicly funded?) open data [1, 2], available in multiple viewers [3, 4] and even on AWS [5]. Still a cool project! On a related note: I th
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by mechsy 3y ago
Classic, thanks a lot!
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by mechsy 3y ago
> I'm a vfx compositor turned devops crossover. That sounds interesting! How come? Been doing devops stuff for a few years by now but also have some background in the Unity/HCI space which I enjoyed a lot. I'd be curious h